It's the season of crime on streaming, with the recently released Unabomber movie jumping to the top of the Netflix viewership charts. Meanwhile, the latest seasons of Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen and MobLand are enjoying continued success on their respective platforms, while another face-off unfolds on MGM+. The Westies, a crime drama series headlined by J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver, had been enjoying relative freedom for the past several weeks, facing competition only in the form of the sci-fi series From. More recently, however, a new crime series has offered a fresh challenge to The Westies, replacing it as the number-one series domestically on MGM+.
The new show is a limited series based on a popular podcast; both the source material and the TV spin-off are fronted by Jon Hamm. The show appears to be following in the footsteps of Ryan Murphy's popular anthology series American Crime Story, American Horror Story, and American Sports Story. Based on a real incident from the 1970s, the new series follows the standoff between a disgruntled man and the authorities after he takes a mortgage broker hostage following a dispute. The hostage taker, played by Giovanni Ribisi, demands to be interviewed by a radio host played by Hamm.
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